Cherry Blossoms

I've always wanted to take pics of Cherry Blossoms in Vancouver, never got a chance really, I have always missed it some how, they just don't stick around waiting for me.

Album added: Cherry Blossoms

Olympic Withdrawal

Although I didn't get to go to any real Olympic event, I did participated and enjoyed some of the Olympic festivities around town. We didn't finish first as I expected, I never thought we would, but we did get a lot of Gold and finished first in that category. 14 Golds, that's 4 more than 2nd place Germany at 10.

Anyway, after 17 days of dramatic highs, tearful lows, it came to abrupt end on Sunday. I don't think we could've written a better script than winning the Gold medal in Men's Ice Hockey vs USA in Overtime. It was freaking awesome!

Anyway, I have finished the Olympic album too, finally. I am working on a video, stay tuned.

Pink Million

http://www.pinkmillion.com/

Finish First?

Chris Rudge, the chief executive of the Canadian Olympic Committee, conceded Monday morning that Canadian athletes will not meet the COC's goal of finishing first in the medal standings at the Winter Olympic Games.

"We are going to be short of our goal. I readily admit that," Mr. Rudge said.

He added that COC officials did not anticipate the strong showing by other countries such the United States, China and South Korea.

The last part about not anticipating strong showing by other countries sounds ignorant and some what arrogant but funny at the same time, what the heck was he smoking when he predicated that we would finish first? Hah...

Go Canada Go

So you have heard, The Winter Olympic Games are in town. It's been C-R-A-Z-Y around the city. And not to mention NBA All Stars, Chinese New Year, and Valentine's day all happening on the same weekend...!!! I'll be uploading the pics taken during the games in one album instead. I am lazy this month.

Album added: 2010 Winter Olympics (will continue adding pics here until the end of Feb)

20190131 Walkabout

It's been awhile since we had brunch and took my camera out for a walk, almost felt guilty not using it... :D It was fun...

Album added: 20100131 Walkabout

Final Cut Pro

I have been messing around trying to learn Final Cut Pro, and here is a quick preview. What I want to do now is to make a time lapse video from Mexico, stay tuned. :) Oh, right, I need to go there first...

Hint: Watch the HD version by clicking on the video, it will take you to youtube.

Just another shoot

It was too windy, the wind blew my lighting umbrella to the ground and bended two shafts, so I threw it away. Luckily the flash did not break, or it'll turn out to be a $400 photoshoot. Phew...

Album updated: Sandy

Nexus

I wish I could make a video like this, even like 5 seconds in total, I would be happy. Vince/Rich, let's do this... :D On a side note, I am very disappointed with the Motorola Droid (Adobe sent one for me to play with, for work of course), it sux, it's heavy, slow, and touch screen is horrible. I think this HTC one is much better tho, I will have to check it out when I get a chance.

BUSY

I have been quite busy with work, even staying up till 4:30 last night, felt shitty and knees felt weak as if they are about to break, Susan didn't like it, anyway, finally got some time to process some pics, so here they are. :D Oh ya, Olympics!!!

Album added: 20100110 Sunday Randoms

Happy New Year...

I have been to Vancouver for about 20 years and I have never done new year's countdown in downtown, neither did Susan. Since our clubbing plans fell through, we decided to countdown ourselves there for the first time. We took skytrain and got there in a hurry right after the dinner with my friends at Q4, and to our surprise, it wasn't packed at all, there were people gathering around, but it wasn't packed or anything, not what I had imagined. I thought it was the weather, cuz it was sort of raining, just a little bit, not enough to use my umbrella though. We walked down Granville for 15 min to check out some of the clubs there, but suddenly, on our way back to Robson, it got crowded quickly! People started to gather around Granville and Robson. It finally got really packed about 5-10 minutes before the countdown to 2010. Anyway, I didn't bother bringing my dSLR, so this is all I got, Happy New Year... :D

Christmas

This year, I realized I have never really had a Christmas with a 'real' girlfriend (by that I meant, most of you may already know that my previous relationships all ended in long distance, for some weird strange reason, so we never got to spend time together during the Holidays) until this year. It was hectic, lots of dinners with families and friends, especially my sister was also visiting from Singapore, but it felt nice, warm, with lots of love. :D

I do feel bad I didn't get to spend as much time as I wanted with my sis though. :( Sorry sis... Oh my TV is here, byeee...

Album added: 2009 Christmas

Canucks vs Capitals (3-2)

Alex Ovechkin was in town, he didn't do much, he played like crap, but it was fun watching him skate still. Other than the rowdy fans beside us, and the boring stretches throughout parts of 2nd and 3rd period, it was pretty exciting game to watch.

:D

American Apparel Contest

Finally found some time to help my sis with her lookbook photos. I was kind of rushing her as I was side tracked with something else, so I didn't spend as much time setting up the environment. So what ended up happening was that I had to photoshop all the nasty stuff in the background. There were power outlets, nails, wires, on/off switches, heater control, and stains from picture frames, etc... But it turned out okay... right? Sigh, a nice studio would've helped. Anyway, help her win the American Apparel contest if you are bored, hype her outfit here, thanks.

Busy Weekend

It was a hectic weekend, started off with the Ensemble Xmas party, two birthday dinners, two birthday parties, one get together and lastly, a dimsum lunch. Lots of freakn food and not to mention all the alcohol consumed...!!! After all that, I am still 152 lbs, not bad... I wonder where all that fat went... probably cuz its too cold, burned them all away during the night... Anyway, no album this time, just a collage of photos taken with my compact camera. Oh ya it's snowing...

9five Eyewear 2009 Lookbook

9five Eyewear 2009 Lookbook from Mike Metcalf on Vimeo.

Pretty cool slow motion video from 9five, showing off their eyewear collection this year.

Found it from hypebeast.

About time...

It's about time that I take pics again. The weather's been so crappy that I haven't been using my camera to its full potential. It's been sunny for the past few days now, I finally took it out for walk... :D

Album added: 20091205 Randoms

andbythewei.com

I have been wanting to take pics with my flashes outdoor, but never had a chance to do so, until today, since my sis needed new photos for her fashion blog at www.andbythewei.com. It was cold but it turned out pretty well. Those optical slaves didn't work at all for the 2nd and 3rd flashes I wanted to use, prob cuz it was still too bright outside, so I ended up using only 1 flash with the umbrella.

Album added: 20091129 Sandy

JL Dinner @ Kobe

aka Ghost Squad Reunion... It's been awhile since all of us got together to have a good dinner, everyone got busy or a couple of us usually can't make it somehow, well, me especially... But not this time!!! Thanks for organizing Dru...

20091122 Chicago Blackhawks vs Vancouver

Just a boring video of players entering the rink and then the Canadian National Anthem performance. Oh, and 1-0 for the bad guys... :(